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A man already incarcerated and awaiting trial in one child sexual exploitation case has been charged with abuse of a second victim.

Kidder Township police charged Todd M. Kowar, 45, with having photography on a computer of a child sex act, child pornography, corruption of minors and two counts of design or copy of obscene material related to a Dec. 7 offense. Troopers filed the charges against him July 2 and he was arraigned that same day before Magisterial District Judge Joseph Homanko, Weatherly, who set bail at $100,000. Unable to post bail, he was remanded to Carbon County Prison, Nesquehoning.

Those charges are related to the abuse of a second victim in the case. Police explained that they charged Kowar for the alleged abuse of the second victim after officers finished the remainder of their investigation recently.

Kowar was initially arrested in December after police charged him with abuse of one of two girls. He was charged with 13 offenses and awaits a pre-trial conference in that case at the Carbon County Courthouse, Jim Thorpe, on Aug. 1.

The girls, then ages 12 and 13, said Kowar encouraged them to undress, photographed them naked separately and together and exposed himself to them, according to court papers. He also printed the pictures, arrest papers state, and took the girls to an adult book store where he purchased a sex toy. Investigators found several other toys and numerous naked photographs of the victims when they searched his home prior to his December arrest, court papers state.

- Amanda Christman

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